New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00515
1963
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Waitress' Wild Guess
Nets Her $100 Prize
With a brand new >2 rpillion
computer and a staff of expert
economists and accountants at
its disposal, it took a “wild
guess'* by a waitress in The
Bowery Savings Bank's commis
sary department to come close to
naming the hour that tl* Nation's
New York
Delegates
Rev. Richard Allen Hilde
brand. president of the New
York branch NAACP. will'head
a delegation oT eight branch
officials and four alternates 4o
the NAACP's annual conven
tion which meets in Chicago
from June 30 • July 6.
Delegates elected to attend
the convention included Rev.
Hildebrand. L. Joseph Over-
ton. Attorney Percy Sutton,
Carl Dunbar Lawrenct, Mrs.
Eirfma* Bowen, Clarence Scott,
Mrs. Enid Simmons, and Wil
liam Webb. The four alternates
are Leonard Faust, Attorney
Jeff Greenup, Herbert Hayes,
and Vincent Baker.
an assistant ud'it supervisor at
the Bank’s main office. 110
E. 42nd St.
largest mutual savings bank
would reach $2 billion In assets.
Bertha Shorter came within
two hours of the correct time
and woo >100 in a coolest spon
sored by the Bank for its employ
ees in conjunction with the cele
bration of reaching the >2 billion
asset mark, which was announc
ed last week.
Plain Talk
While other employees worked
with slide rules and made projec
tions based on past growth iig-
ures, Mrs. Shorter “ . . Just talk
ed it over with a friend who said
that this seems like a tuckyday.”
Mrs. Shorter, who lives Id the
Bronx and has two children, has
been with The Bowery for sev
en years. '
Margarine Wiggins Ozaomer. a
teller at the 130 Bowery Office
of the Bank, won second prize
with another “wild guess." Third
prise was won by John, Winije,
Pet Peeve -
It'g better to let sleeping dogs
lie, especially if he's a boxer.
/ — Decatur Herald.
RETIRING MAN — Norman
Saunders, center, receives U S.
Treasury Department’s Albert
Gallatin Award from Lawrence
Englishman, supervising cus
toms agent on occasion of Mr.
Saunders’ retirement as a cus
toms port investigator. At right
is Mrs. Saunders.
Customs Investigator
Retires After 27 Yrs.
QMJXOOKS... there's
BASELY TIME!
PRIZE CHECKS f Morris D.
Crawford Jr., Bowery Savings
Bank- President, presents prize
checks to the winners of an
employee contest to guess the
day. hour and minute the Na
tion's largest mutual savings
bank would reach $2 billion in
aaaatt. The winner,, Bertha
Shorter, a waitress in the
Bank's commissary depart
ment i at left i beat out the
economists, statisticians and a
new $2 million computer with
a “wild guess” that came with
in two hours erf the exact t$ne
of the event Which was ian-
•
nounced yesterday. The .other
winners are Margaritte Wtg-
gins Ozaomer and John Winfcje.
DOWN BOV... CAN'T
YOU SEE Ito IN A HURRY.
More than 200 friends and co-'
workers gathered to pay tribute
to Norman E. Saunders. Customs
Port Investigator with the U. S
Treasury Department who retired
on' May 30 after 27 years of
continuous service at the Grand
Street Boys’ Club.
Highlighting the dinner was
the presentation of the U. S.
Treasury Dept. .Albert Gallatin
award to Mr. Saunders by Law
rence Fleishman, Supervising
Customs Agent, a citation from,
the Cerberean Society by Leonard
Alston, president and a plaque*
commending Mr. Saunders’ work
with the youth of the Harlem
B-anch YMCA by Alan L. Dingle,
chairman, Board of Managers.
Bringing special greetings were
Robert Lowery, executive secre
tary Federation of Negro Civil
Service Organizations; Judge
Jonah J. Goldstein, president.
Grand Street Boy’s Club; Dr.
Herman Mantel!, president, Coun
cil of Jewish Organizations in
Service, and special deputy cen-
troiler; Judge Louis Kap'an com
missioner of investigations, and
Mrs. Joyce P. Austin, assistant
to the Mayor.
Leonard Grr t, is a Liqu.J-
ator with U. S. Customs, served
as dinner chairman and toast
master.
Mr. Saunders is a founder of
the Sentinel^ Society, Inc., and
founder and president of the
Federation of Negro Civil Service
Organizations.
Teen Toughs
Beat Up Men
Over Hydrant
' Three m» mbers ot the City’s Gov. Rockefeller and Mayor
Sanitation Department vere in- Waggjfe-have been invited by ‘he
jured by unruly teenagers last Greater-New York Coordinating
Thursday night when they at- Commiftee for Equal Opportun-
tempted to turn off the fire hy- ity to attend its mass meeting at
drant on 115th St. between Fifth 2:30 p m. Saturday cf this week
and Lenox Avenues.
.•jin front of the Hotel Theresa
' Frank Ragusa, 29. of 159 Dove- where bias against Negroes will
cot Lane, Central Islip, is con- be aired, it' was disclosed this
fined in Flower Hospital suffer- week by the committee,
j-"' with a fractured nose and a Bishop 'Alvin A. Childs. of
cut eye. Dominick Noone, 28, of Faith Temple Church of God in
1689 Loring Pl., Bronx, was cut Christ, is chairman of the com-
about the right hand and Howard mRtee. Arnold Johnson, of the
Capen, 37, of 223-14 105th Ave., Small Business Chamber of Com-
Queens Village, was treated for merce, and the Rev. Nelson C.
contusions of head and faceand Dukes, of Fountain Spring Bap-
sent home.
tist Church, are co - chairmen.
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